Capital A Bhd is planning New York listings for its low-cost carrier AirAsia and its digital Super App. The company, which was previously known as AirAsia Group Bhd, began compliance work towards having two separate listings, one for AirAsia planned sometime next year, followed by one for the Super App, which offers services, such as e-hailing and food delivery.
Southeast Asian internet giant Sea Ltd’s e-commerce arm Shopee will lay off some workers in its ShopeeFood and ShopeePay teams in the region. It will also let go part of its teams in Mexico, Argentina and Chile, as well as a cross-border team supporting the market in Spain.
Talently offers training and an employability marketplace and announced its new capital raising of a US$3 million seed round. The startup that connects talent with technology companies announced that it has grown 50x since the pandemic, maintaining a monthly growth of 30%. Talently has an intensive training platform for software developers in tools that allow them to access positions in leading technology companies.
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.